At St. Michael’s Island, there are views of the trading station, the Greek church and Russian block house, the buildings of the Alaska Commercial Company, and natives in camp., In Sitka, there are views of the Greek Church, the governor’s house and other public buildings, and of native women curio sellers who turn their backs to avoid having their pictures taken., Photograph album and loose photographs of a voyage to Alaska on the U.S.S. Bear, including views of St. George and Kings Island, seals on St. Paul’s Island, the mission school, a native boat race, walrus hunting and related activities on Cape Prince of Wales, the Bering Straits and natives and landscapes of the Siberian coast, the Indian River, and views of floating ice in the Arctic Ocean., and Some views are commercially produced, though most appear to be personal photographs. There are individual and group portraits of the crews, passengers and officers of several ships, both on board and on shore, and a listing of the crew of the Bear appears on the fly leaf of the album. The photographs also record whalers and other ships encountered along the way.
Description:
Alfred L. Broadbent (A.L.B.?) was an engineer on the U.S.S. Bear, a revenue cutter active in the Arctic during the 1890s. and Photographs are accompanied by manuscript captions. Album photographs measure 11.2 x 19.5 cm. and are all inscribed with the initials "A.L.B."
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works, Pribilof Islands (Alaska) --Pictorial works, and Sitka (Alaska) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bear (Ship) and Broadbent, Alfred L
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alaska, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, and Sealing --Alaska --Pictorial works
Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Portrait photography--United States, and Shinnecock Indians--Pictorial works
Photograph album and photographs of Montana, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
English translation of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Apachen [ word undeciphered ] in the Sierra Madre mountains (Mexico), Location of image: Emory Spring, Perilla Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona Territory, and Transcription of the deutscher Schrift inscription: Apachen [word undeciphered] in dem Sierra Madre Gebirge (Mexico)
Subject (Name):
United States. Army. Cavalry, 6th--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Apache Indians--Pictorial works and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915. Thomas Houseworth & Co
Published / Created:
ca. 1874
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 49
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Studio portrait photograph from a mammoth plate negative identified as Susan Te-u-pun McKay, an Umatilla Indian and wife of Donald McKay, a government scout involved in the Modoc Indian War, created by the studio of Thomas Houseworth & Co., ca. 1874.
Alternative Title:
Housewoth's celebrities
Description:
Printed caption on the verso: "The Nevada Fall, 700 feet high, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal., No. 20" and "No. 9 Montgomery St., San Francisco".